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རྣམ་པར་འཕྲུལ་པ་
Transliteration: rnam par 'phrul pa
<noun> form of རྣམ་པར་འཕྲུལ་བ་ q.v. for meaning. Usually abbrev. to རྣམ་འཕྲུལ་. "Manifestation", "incarnation", "projection", "miraculous / magical emanation or display", "transformation (made through the power of mind)". Similar to སྤྲུལ་པ་, something manifested, including a person, e.g., རྣམ་འཕྲུལ་བཅུ་གཉིས་ "the twelve manifestations of Padmasaṃbhava" q.v.
ནང་སྒྲུབ་
Transliteration: nang sgrub
<phrase> "Inner Practice". The name is usually found in systems where there are outer and inner or ཕྱི་སྒྲུབ་ outer, inner, and གསང་སྒྲུབ་ secret levels of a particular practice. E.g., see ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེན་པོ་འགྲོ་བ་ཀུན་གྲོལ་ and its related inner and secret practices. Freq. the term is an abbrev. of ནང་གི་སྒྲུབ་ཐབས་ in which case it means "inner (level) sādhana".
ཡུལ་གྲོང་
Transliteration: yul grong
1) <noun> Abbrev. of ཡུལ་གྱི་གྲོང་ཁྱིམ་. 2) <phrase> Meaning ཡུལ་བདག་ and གྲོང་བདག་ "spirits who are the local owners of districts and of cities". A term used in the establishment of the Kālachakra maṇḍala in which many types of spirits and local deities are appointed as protectors of the maṇḍala. E.g., ཡུལ་གྲོང་གཏོར་བ་བཤམ་ནས། "having set out the tormas for the district and city (land…
ཟུར་
Transliteration: zur
I. <verb> Imp. of འཛུར་བ་ q.v.
II. <noun> 1) The "corner" part of something. 2) An "angle" e.g., ཟུར་གསུམ་ is "a triangle". 3) A "facet" of a jewel. 3) Something which is not the main part but which is off to the side, something towards the edge / margin / border.
III. <adj> In a number of contexts, it conveys the sense of "tangential", "indirect", "off to one side".
ཁོད་སྙོམས་པ་
Transliteration: khod snyoms pa
1) For a surface to be relatively "level" in the sense that its highs and lows are "even". 2) Acc. [LGK] this term was revised during the སྐད་གསར་བཅད་ language revisions and meant, when written in new signs, ཡིད་མི་དགའ་བ་ "mind not pleased" or སྒྱིད་ལུག་པ་ "idle".
འཁར་གཞོང་
Transliteration: 'khar gzhong
<noun> "Bronze basin"; a basin or dish made of the འཁར་བ་ metal bronze. Note that in dharma texts this is often used just to mean a vessel of basin size and shape—it's being made of metal or not is beside the point—therefore in these cases it can be translated just as "bowl" or "basin" e.g., [TYL] རུས་སྦལ་འཁར་གཞོང་དུ་བཅུག་པའོ། "it is just like a tortoise being put into a basin".
གསུང་དབྱངས་ཡན་ལག་དྲུག་ཅུ་
Transliteration: gsung dbyangs yan lag drug cu
<phrase> "The sixty branches of intonation of (Buddha) speech". When the qualities of a buddha are enumerated, the speech aspect is referred to as having sixty aspects of intonation. These sixty aspects are derived from རྩ་བ་དྲུག་ six root qualities that have ཡན་ལག་བཅུ་ ten branches each. The six root qualities are: 1) ཚངས་པ་ལྟ་བུ་ like Brahma; 2) སིལ་སྙན་ལྟ་བུ་ like (small, sweet-sounding)…
འཇབ་པ་
Transliteration: 'jab pa
<verb> v.t. འཇབས་པ་/ འཇབ་པ་/ འཇབ་པ་/ འཇོབས་/. To hide oneself either in wait or while doing something so that no-one else knows of it. I.e., "to be stealthy", "to go undetected", 'to do something clandestinely", "to stay hidden while...". There are various words in English that describe this approach and they should be used on context, e.g., "to be surreptitious", "to do a clandestine opera…
ཅིག་ཆོད་
Transliteration: cig chod
Sometimes seen for གཅིག་ཆོད་ q.v. E.g., [GSB] དབུ་མ་དང་ཕྱག་རྒྱ་ཆེན་པོ་མན་ཆད་ནས། མུ་སྟེགས་ཡན་ཆོད་ཅིག་ཆོད་དུ་སོང་བ་ཞིག་ "This one thing that serves for everything from the Middle Way and Mahāmudrā and all the way through to Tirthika at the other end ..."
རྒྱ་ལ་
Transliteration: rgya la
1) Either "one time" meaning on one occasion or "several times" meaning several times over. 2) <ཚིག་ཕྲད་ phrase connector> Used to indicate the opening of a conditional statement "if ... then" statement. It has the same meaning as གལ་ཏེ་ or གལ་སྲིད་. E.g., [GSB] རྒྱ་ལ་བར་དོར་སྐྱེ་བ་མ་དག་ན་་་ "If it has not purified birth in the bardo..."
འགོ་
Transliteration: 'go
I. <verb> Present and fut. part of འགོ་བ་ q.v.
II. <noun> With the meaning "beginning", "start", "initial stage" of something. This is combined with many other words to provide a variety of meanings. One connotation of "beginning" is that which is the root of some larger matter; hence, the term is also used to mean the "head person", "the leader". Similarly it is also used to mean "the…
རྒྱུགས་
Transliteration: rgyugs
I. <verb> Imp. of v.t. and v.i. or past part of v.i. རྒྱུག་པ་ q.v. Note that the imperative of the v.i. is commonly used in conversation to give the meaning "Go away!" / "Get Out!" / "Leave now!".
II. <noun> 1) "Test" or "examination". The actual test used in an examination. 2) "Share" or "portion" same as སྐལ་བ་ e.g. ཐུག་རྒྱུགས་ "(your) share or portion of the soup".
ཆུ་ལྷ་
Transliteration: chu lha
<noun> "Water Deity". Translation of the Sanskrit "varuṇa". 1) In ancient India, each of the འབྱུང་བ་བཞི་ four physical elements had its own deity. The deity belonging to water, the deity who is the principle of water, who lives in it and has control over it is Varuṇadevi (lit. the water deity). She was regarded as blue in ancient Indian culture in general and this has passed into the Tibet…
སྐྱ་མེར་རེ་
Transliteration: skya mer re
<adv> [Onomat] describing the way that something is ཕྱུར་བུར་བཀང་བ་ filled up to overflowing with whitish fluid. E.g., འཁོར་ལོ་བཞིའི་གནས་རྣམས་ཀྱང་བདུད་རྩིའི་སྐྱ་མེར་གྱིས་ཁེངས་ "the places of the four chakras are also filled to overflowing with the whiteness of the amrita".
འོན་པ་
Transliteration: 'on pa
I. <verb> v.i. འོན་པ་/ འོན་པ་/ འོན་པ་//. "To be deaf", "to be unable to hear", and also "to become deaf" and "to be deafened" by a loud noise. E.g., [TC] མེ་སྒྱོགས་ཀྱི་སྒྲས་རྣ་བ་འོན་པ། "deafened by the sound of the cannons".
II. <noun><adj> Cognate to the verb "deaf". E.g., མི་འོན་པ་ "a deaf person" and "the deaf".
III. [Old] "to hold (up) and show". E.g., [TC] བུམ་པ་འོན་གྱིས། "ho…
གསང་སྒྲུབ་
Transliteration: gsang sgrub
<phrase> "Secret Practice". The name is usually found in systems where there are outer and inner or ཕྱི་སྒྲུབ་ outer, ནང་སྒྲུབ་ inner, and secret levels of a particular practice. E.g., see ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེན་པོ་འགྲོ་བ་ཀུན་གྲོལ་ and its related inner and secret practices. Freq. the term is an abbrev. of གསང་བའི་སྒྲུབ་ཐབས་ in which case it means "secret (level) sādhana".
འཕྱེ་བོ་
Transliteration: 'phye bo
<noun> Acc. [ULS] and [LGK] this term was revised during the སྐད་གསར་བཅད་ language revisions and meant, when written in new signs, གོང་པོ་ or ཡན་ལག་མེད་པར་ལྟོ་བས་འགྲོ་བ་, not having limbs, a being that moves along on the belly i.e., something that crawls, like a serpent, etc.
ཇི་བཞིན་
Transliteration: ji bzhin
<ཚིག་ཕྲད་ phrase connector> similar to ཇི་ལྟར་. It means "what kind of" or "how", "in what way". E.g., [TC] བསམ་དོན་ཇི་བཞིན་གྲུབ་པ། "how his wishes were accomplished"; གནས་ལུགས་ཇི་བཞིན་དུ་མཐོང་བ། "how actuality will be seen"; དགེ་རྒན་གྱིས་གསུངས་པ་ཇི་བཞིན་ཤེས་སོང་། "I understood it in the way that the teacher stated it" or "how the teacher said it is how I understood it".
བདེན་བྲལ་
Transliteration: bden bral
<noun> "Fiend". Translation of the Sanskrit "nairṛtaḥ". 1) [Mngon] i) A general name for སྲིན་པོ་ "rākṣhasas". ii) A name for the chief of the སྲིན་པོ་ "rākṣhasas" who is one of the ཕྱོགས་སྐྱོང་བརྒྱད་ "Eight Guardians of the Directions" and འཇིག་རྟེན་སྐྱོང་བ་བཅུ་ "Eight Guardians of the World", the direction protector of the South-western direction. 2) [Mngon] A metaphoric name for the dire…